Status from sprint and looking ahead

[Gary Poster]

Hi all.

Thank you very much for your hard work already this week.

Here's a quick status.

We presented the GUI to Mark today.  We used these slides to start with:

https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/presentation/d/1yTSZf_UlYTX309sqjcjKaU6Vw6AuembaMe3Xr4NshQ4/edit#slide=id.g474f18f2_0_0

As you'll see, slides three and four are the only ones with meat.  Mark
was pleased with our status and plans.  You'll see in the "upcoming"
section what we'll be working on.  I'll elaborate on those items below.

Increased integration of charm browser information directly within the
GUI (primarily Orange)

As said, this will be primarily Orange, because we have other work we
need to address (see below).  We are working through the design at the
sprint, responding to Mark's comments and our own discussions.  We also
hope to have a discussion at the end of the week about how we might want
to deliver this incrementally.  At least some work will be needed to
prepare the environment and right hand panel for the charm panel
changes.  I'm not sure that will be us, yet, but we will need to be
involved somehow.


User research validation for new design direction

Alejandra is hoping to take the new design to Charlene.  The only effect
I think this will have on us is that it may keep the charm browser work
from starting.


Landscape integration (in progress)

Thomas Herve is working on the Landscape side of this now, and this is
one of the two tasks we could start immediately.  I'd like to leave the
sprint with a hard list of each item that we will have to add to the GUI
and where in the current interface it will go.  I am hopeful that this
will be the hardest part of the exercise. :-)


IE 10 by March 31; also Firefox

Note the date, which I will explain in hangouts later.  As I've
mentioned to at least some of you, I think this has three components.
- We will need to get a good way for us to get IE10 so we can develop
with it.  The VMs that Microsoft provides only go up through IE9
(http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11575
and https://github.com/xdissent/ievms).  I will ask Antonio to see if we
can get Windows licenses for each of us for VMs.
- We will need to figure out a way to run CI tests for IE10 and Firefox.
 Daily and on demand would be my goal, but for each landing would be
even nicer.  Proposals for how to do this would be welcome.  I
personally suspect that using a service to help out (e.g.
http://www.browserstack.com/) will be very cost effective and the right
direction.
- We will need to get the GUI working in IE10 and FF! :-)  Hopefully
that will be pretty easy.


Go Juju integration (GUI and charm; Go deliverables)

This is the big task.  We would be fleshing out API patterns
pre-established by the Juju Core team and integrating them into the GUI.
 Kapil and I are talking about whether some or all of us would work on
the Go API part of the story.  Please let me know what your personal
interest is in working in Go on this part of the task.


If we have extra time, we will probably work towards the UX changes.  An
even shinier UX would be nice at ODS in April.

That's it for now.  Thanks again.

Gary